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Extract from An Ode to the Spleen

In Answer to Mr. Pope

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

A Description of the Morning

Horace, Book IV, Ode IX. Addressed to Archbishop King, 1718

Apollo's Edict. Occasioned by 'News from Parnassus'

Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa

The Beasts' Confession

32

33

34

39

. Mark Pattison

55

127

From the First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace imitated.

Augustus

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her mother's arms

THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718)

Extract from A Night-Piece on Death

Edmund W. Gosse 133

135

To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison

156

Patie and Peggy

Through the Wood, Laddie

An thou were my ain thing

JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748).

Extracts from The Seasons:

A Snow Scene, from 'Winter'

The Sheep-washing, from 'Summer'

The Coming of the Rain, from 'Spring'

Storm in Harvest, from 'Autumn'

Extracts from the Castle of Indolence. Book I

JOHN ARMSTRONG (1709-1779)

Extract from The Art of Preserving Health, Book III

Book IV

Taste, an Epistle to a Young Critic

WILLIAM SOMERVILLE (1677-1742)

Edmund W. Gosse 189

EDWARD YOUNG (1684-1765).

* Extract from The Last Day, Book I

The Old Coquette (from Satire V, on Women)

Extracts from Night Thoughts:

Procrastination, from Night I

The Death of Friends, from Night III

Aspiration, from Night IV

The Stream of Life, from Night V

Austin Dobson 194

197

203

Prof. E. Dowden 206

210

214

George Saintsbury 217

219

· 219

221

Polydorus and Maron (from Leonidas, Book IX)
Ballad of Admiral Hosier's Ghost ·

Thales' reasons for leaving London (from London)
Extracts from The Vanity of Human Wishes:

The Rise and Fall of Wolsey

The True Objects of Desire

251

Prologue spoken at the opening of the Drury Lane Theatre, 1747

Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wise

JOHN WESLEY (1703–1791), CHARLES WESLEY (1708-1788)

Much Taste and Small Estate (from The Progress of Taste)

An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland

Dirge in Cymbeline

Impromptu on Lord Holland's Seat at Kingsgate

WILLIAM WHITEHEAD (1715-1785)

MARK AKENSIDE (1721-1770)

Extract from The Pleasures of Imagination

On the Winter Solstice, 1740

The Editor 337

Extract from The Triumph of Isis

Extract from The First of April

Sonnet written in a blank leaf'of Dugdale's 'Monasticon'

To the River Lodon

CHARLES CHURCHILL (1731-1764)

Description of his Muse (from The Prophecy of Famine)

Characters of Actors (from The Rosciad)

Description of Johnson (from The Ghost).

Charles the First (from Gotham)

JAMES BEATTIE (1735-1803).

E. J. Payne 389

.

George Saintsbury 396

397

Extract from The Minstrel, Book I

THOMAS CHATTERTON (1752-1770)

An Excellent Ballad of Charity.

Eclogue the First

The Editor 422

Eclogue the Third

Minstrel's Marriage-Song (from Ælla: a Tragical Interlude)

The Accounte of W. Canynge's Feast

Minstrel's Roundelay (from Ælla)

WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)

The Past and Future of Poetry (from Table Talk)

Grace and the World (from Hope)

Extracts from Conversation :

Characters and Sketches

An Afternoon Call

Extracts from Retirement:

On the Death of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bullfinch

The Acquiescence of Pure Love

The Castaway

SCOTCH MINOR SONG-WRITERS, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Prof. W. Minto 486

There's nae Luck about the House (Jean Adams)

Ca' the Yowes (Isabel Pagan)